Pre-Dinner: Collaboration and Work Management Across Teams: Do you Know What to Use and When?

Jacques Goupil PPM Works

Jacques has been implementing Microsoft Project solutions since 1998 and has over 20 years of professional experience in project management software design, implementation, and development. Coming from a Program Management background, Jacques has successfully implemented PMOs at many Top 50 firms and he shares his experience and knowledge as a guest speaker and panelist at several industry conferences. Jacques holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Services, is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Manager Professional and holds his MCP and MCTS in Project.

Topic Description:

It can be difficult to decide which technology each group in your organization should use. We see many organizations using Microsoft time-saving tools and functionality. Over the past 3-6 months, some common industry best-practices have emerged. While tools may share capabilities you can guide your organization in a common direction that offers flexibility. Let the experts at PPM Works walk you through real-world scenarios highlighting work management and collaboration with Microsoft PPM, Office 365 groups, Teams, Planner, Flow, and the Tracking tool. Join us for this demystifying session and walk away with your PPM organizational PPM collaboration and work management road map.

Topics include:

Leveraging Microsoft 365 (OneNote, Teams, Planner, and Flow)

Microsoft Planner to Project Integration

Tracking tool (flexibility is key when tracking items)

Use Cases - What to Use When

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Dinner Meeting: The Project Risk Management Dilemma

Tapan Kulkarni, PMP

Tapan Kulkarni is a PMP from Houston, TX. He has been in PM Organization for over 8 years and in Product Development for the last 1.5 years. He is both an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer and has expertise in Risk Management, Project and Product Management. He works for Schlumberger and has been a PMI member since 2013. He also attended Harvard Business School's Risk Management Program for executives.

Topic Description:

Often a company is tempted to throw a new risk process/tool in the hope of 'fixing' a problem. The company usually spends hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and years to implement the new risk process/tool only to realize that they failed. Why? Any process/tool cannot not a silver bullet for a company. Often the process/tool builder and implementer do not consider the appetite and readiness of the organization. At times the process/tool is top-heavy and at other times, it is too simple to be useful. The secret of any process/tool's acceptance and success is always in scaling it to the organization's needs.

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Parking:Parking is available in the garage attached to the building for a discounted fee or there is a garage across the street that is free.